HE nerf being reversed?

Draschel:  Artillery can and will damage and destroy tanks. But its context is very unlike how you are portraying it.  An 105mm  howitzer battery (common WWII medium artillery)  could have saturated a battlefield, thousands of HE-Frag ordnance over a short burst. The typical situation in that an 105mm HE-Frag shell lands *onto* or rightly adjacent to moving vehicles are very, extremely rare. Most WWII main battle tanks (mediums) have at least 38-51mm side armor, which is 1.5-2in rolled steel, for the exact reason of resisting shell splinters or autocannon immunity. Now, if the examples of Panthers, Tigers, Ferdinand, Tiger II are used in that they are gang-banged at nearer ranges VS self propelled or towed artillery, such as 105 / 122 / 152/ 155mm guns firing direct fire HE-Frag ammunition, directly onto the target - what you have is no more an *artillery* concept. This is direct fire, Anti-tank gun role, with a different ammunition and velocity.  --Artillery in indirect, looping action is extremely inefficient, ineffective, wasteful at targeting AFVs. Can it happen, certainly. Does it happen, not often. Does it involve huge expenditures of stockpiled ammunition with low net-ratio to success, yes. But in this game it is rather the contrary, decently effective. --An artillery in direct, LOS action against AFV but using their typical HE-Frag and WP ammunition, can certainly disable and destroy enemy armor. But this isn't the issue, because they no longer are serving as artillery, but are now simply direct-fire guns shooting an improperly designed shellcase for the job.  

Draschel:  Games don't last forever. Its a long run already. 1-- gold spam isn't an issue. Gold spam is a grievance used by complaining defeatists. I see armor working all the time. and if you think the game is press 2 and shoot gold and pen and win, you are most certainly mistaken. 2-- the nerf to HE shells something we needed back in 2011, nevermind 2021. HE has been a crutch for people to lean on for a decade. HE teaches very little, other than complacency and laziness, instead of valuable things like positioning and map awareness. While I do believe some aspects were too severe, like spaced armor / tracks x3 thickness buff has been too much, moving that to normal x1 effectiveness and removing weird high HE random damage rolls that exist seldom, makes the good HE changes much better  3-- playerbase attitude is an impossible task. There will always be bad attitude. There will always be good attitude. No one cares. This game doesn't measure attitude. It measures results. No one cares.